Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 14th, 1981 and features the testimonies form historians Neal Peterson, David Trask, Fred Beck, and Orville Shirey, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Japanese American sociologist who challenged Japanese American incarceration before the US Supreme Court, and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
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Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back; an address label (George M. Wakiji/5820 Iron Willow Court/ Alexandra, VA 22310) affixed to back covering another, perhaps previous address. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 14, 1981. It features members of commission and captures the testimonies from Min Yasui and Gordon Hirabayashi, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, Orville Shirey. Both Yasui and Hirabayashi were plaintiffs in Supreme Court challenges to Japanese incarceration. Shirey worked with the 442 combat regiment and wrote about his experiences. Also to testify was level War Relocation Authority official Leland Barrows and Senators Inouye and Matsunaga.
The people in the highlighted cells are as follows:
This photograph is of three small children standing in front of the barracks. The three children's names are Taka, Aki, and Yukiharu Sugimoto, and they are standing in the Tule Lake concentration camp. These children were incarcerated with their family at the Tule Lake detention center. There were many children that had to endure incarceration with their parents.
This photo taken in Jerome, Arkansas, shows three men sawing a log. Prisoners had various jobs at the camp, and these men were in charge of cutting up wood. They're posing for the picture and smiling, showing the spirit of Japanese Americans while they were imprisoned. On the back of the photo it says, "Cutting down trees in the woods for fuel to heat the barracks in Arkansas".
Contact sheet of negatives by George Wakiji documenting the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Hearings in Washington, D.C. Name stamp of George Wakiji on back; an address label (George M. Wakiji/5820 Iron Willow Court/ Alexandra, VA 22310) affixed to back covering another, perhaps previous address. Photo label of those depicted affixed on reverse.
The CWRIC was a bipartisan commission formed by President Jimmy Carter to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066) and the incarceration of American citizens, as well as the mistreatment of the Alaskan natives of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands. The following contact sheet documents the hearing held on July 16, 1981 inside the Senate Caucus Building, room 318 in the Russell Senate Office Building. It features members of commission and captures the testimonies from Mike Masaoka and William Hohri. Mike Masaoka was a prominent Japanese American activist who held leadership positions at the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). William Hohri served as the lead plaintiff on the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR) class action lawsuit. He was also an important figure in the redress movement.
The people in the highlighted cells are as follows: